Obama's economic philosophy can be summed in the broken window fallacy. From forcing power producers to switch power plants before their operating life is over, to car manufacturers redesigning cars to fit his new CAFE standards, to adding wheelchair access to swimming pools , to now redesigning food distribution and increasing the cost of food, everyone in business has to conform to his priorities, rather than work on their own priorities.

You always have to watch what Obama is doing with his other hand. While all the media’s attention has kept us focused on the Fiscal Cliff, Obama’s regulatory people just slipped a big one past us that could have much more enduring and profound consequences on our country. Similar to his EPA declaring CO2 to be a hazardous substance. Similar to his regulations requiring “economic justice” to be factored into every federal government funded transportation project.

It's starting to feel like the cold, calculating logic of simple self-interest is going to dictate that the makers start looking to outside-the-US opportunities.

Maybe it's time to form a "virtual nation"? Let the physical nations compete for the benefits of the economy of a virtual economy that is always ready and able to relocate elsewhere. (I'm not sure this is possible?)

"Produce farmers would be required to ensure that their crops arent contaminated by bad water or animal waste. Some will likely be compelled to build fences to keep out wildlife . . . Food industry groups welcomed the proposals . . . The FDA estimated that the produce regulations would cost a large farm roughly $30,000 a year.

The stupidity of our government is breathtaking. I wash produce before eating it. That is a dramatically more sensible option than trying to keep birds, bunnies, squirrels, and for all we know bees from entering farmland. As for adding $30k to a farm's annual costs, I don't think anyone in the Obama Administration has even the slightest clue how economics works (unless they really are trying to destroy our economy).

33 posted on 01/04/2013 10:24:33 PM PST by Pollster1
(Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)

I know the bureaucrats in Europe are so bacteriophobic that they demand beer and live culture cheeses be Pasteurized to kill the bacteria. But preventing animals from grazing in fields? Are they essentially proposing that all farm animals must be penned for their entire lives?